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Re:Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor by adapteva on Thursday October 06, 2016 @06:03PM (#12656514)
Impossible to characterize without high volume silicon or accurate yield models. We can say that historically, most failures are in SRAM cells and they are limited to a few bits (core still works!) and that in general only one out of N cores will fail. For arguments sake, let's assume the while network always works, but 1 CPU may be broken. (this is what needs to be confirmed later). Does that help?
Re:Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor by vardump on Friday October 07, 2016 @02:41AM (#12658668)
Yes, that helps.

It might be easier to work around broken SRAM bits than just skipping a whole core.

That way you could always have same pipeline layout and not need to compute it dynamically.